Intel axes 4GHz chip in favor of efficiency

AMD and other chip makers have long done it, but computer nerds have forever desired the day when Intel got real and started making genuine steps towards making their chips more efficient before piling on the MHz (and heat, and power consumption, and so on). They undertook this strategy in their laptop-based Pentium M line (which instead of being marketed at so-and-so-GHz, were been given model numbers which indicate performance stepping, like 715, 725, 735,
etc.), but now Intel's officially started those wheels in motion with their bread and butter desktop CPU line by axing their in-development 4GHz Pentium 4 in favor of adding more performance enhancements and a smaller bump to 3.8GHz. You go Intel.